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  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldEntry-Level NAS recommendations?
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    1 month ago

    Bingo. I’ve used Synology for ages and while they dont last forever, I get a lot of use out of them and re-buy them usually with an upgrade in mind.

    But the new hard drive policy broke that cycle. I don’t put up with that. I replaced one with a UGreen NAS last month. It’s too early to tell how I feel about it. Docker is there and containers spin up pretty easily. Rumor has it there is hardware support for video encoding too, though I haven’t gotten around to testing it.







  • Man, I would. I am 100% the target demographic, jumped in the 3D TV rabbit hole and loved it. Totally knew it was a gimmick, but didn’t care. Would have friends over for 3D movie parties.

    But adding them to my Plex server sucked. TAB or SBS files were half-assed and the PlayStation I used took sooooooo damn long to freaking start the movie and skipping was an issue.




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    2 months ago

    I get what you are saying, but in the case of the internet, you need an IP address to connect rather than simply exist with a computer. Someone needs to know where to send the data.

    There are however free connections: unsecured neighbors wifi, city wifi, hotels, and even busses/trams. Lots have limitations to hogging bandwidth though.





  • I thought about this years ago and my best solution was a system to establish a profile, like a vCard with public/private keys that would generate SHA keys to authenticate with services to forward/verify communications. Instead of email, a key and domain or MX; instead of phone numbers a SHA number.

    The user could burn contacts or accept invites and stuff.